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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Remember that time Google deleted a guy's account and reported him to police for discussing his kid's health with their doctor?

https://archive.ph/lUfPr

Dude lost basically every picture of his kid since he was born because Google won't let him back into his Google drive, even after the police cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Some asshole is gonna respond "that's what he gets for trusting cloud storage" as if the problem with cloud storage isn't that big companies have people fooled into thinking it's safe. Yeah, you should keep local backups of everything in case of this exact scenario, kind of like how women should carry pepper spray in case they get assaulted in public. Don't blame victims for not taking every possible precaution.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just want to add one more thing:

Mark still has hope that he can get his information back. The San Francisco police have the contents of his Google account preserved on a thumb drive. Mark is now trying to get a copy. A police spokesman said the department is eager to help him.

You know you fucked up when the police are the good guys in the story.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they’re so eager why didn’t they just get it done right away?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

I assume it'd because it's someone's incredibly private information, and they want to make sure they don't give it to some random Joe. I know if the police had naked pictures of my kid, I'd be happy if the process of getting copies took more than just showing my ID and getting a thumb drive

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Some asshole is gonna respond "that's what he gets for trusting cloud storage"

Yet businesses do that all of the time. Although I think quite a lot of suing would happen if anyone deleted our data.